University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1985
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Study of acid dust delayed
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Construction of research towers to monitor acid dust has been delayed by the civil engineering department because of a lack of financing, Dennis Lane, professor of civil engineering, said yesterday.
Last semester, the civil engineering department made proposals to the Environmental Protection Agency for the towers, but the amount of funds needed were never granted.
Now, the department is waiting to find out whether it will receive a $100,000 grant from the University of Kansas that would help the defense team recover from cancer, as deemed with cancer-causing toxic air pollutants. Lane said.
"The towers weren't completely dropped, but the toxic pollutants, such as pesticides, are areas which will be more valuable and easier for the department to conduct." Lane said.
ACID DUST, LANE said, had
moved down on the EPA's priority fund list. And now the EPA has $75 million up for grabs for organizations researching toxic air pollutants.
"We want to get abid of some of this money," Lane said. "This issue of cancer-causing pollutants, such as lead, is much more in the public forum."
With the money, a research plot about 10 miles north of Lawrence that is owned by KU, will become the largest air pollutant research. Lane said.
In a forest-like setting, air particles above the trees, on the trees and in the soil will be measured as to the amount of pollutants on their growth, he said.
By doing this type of research, the department hopes to collect data, of which they now have little, that is likely to attract more financing. Lane said.
ALSO, BY RECEIVING financing,
more graduate students can be hired
to do the research, which is necessary
for the project to succeed, Lane said.
If the department receives the
$100,000 grant in April, construction of the research ecosystem and tower will begin immediately. Lane said.
"Last fall we realized the trend toward toxic pollutants in the ecosystem by the EPA from our contacts with scientists," said "So then we applied for a grant."
Toxic pollutant research, as well as most pollution detection research, is a slow process of filtering the particles — such as dangerous compounds of sulfates — out of the air. Lane said.
Every center in the nation that is conducting air pollutant research has its own method of filtering out the air. The Center for Clean Air City Mo., graduate student, said.
Lane said that KU researchers have been able to analyze air pollution in Lawrence only recently, and he said it is the first air pollution filter, an air pollution filtering system.
Nixon said he was surprised the air in Lawrence was as bad as it was, based on what he told them.
The results showed that 40 percent of the total sample of air tested contained methane.
Housing report requests changes
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
Expanding residence hall visitation policy to include Joseph R. Pearson and Templin halls and hiring more security monitors for those halls are recommended for the 1986-87 school year by a housing committee report.
A Residential Programs Advisory Board committee yesterday presented its report at the board's meeting.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life and chairman of the board, said the committee was formed in October to review and make suggestions for the visitation and security policies in the residence and scholarship halls.
Board members are expected to
vote whether to adopt the recommendations made in the report at their April 10 meeting, Smith said.
SMITH SAID A need for the committee stemmed from a new residence hall visitation policy that began this year. The visitation policy requires residents to register visitors during security hours.
All halls except JRP and Templin now follow the check-in procedure, and the report recommends that the staff must also be required to follow the policy.
Ruth Mikkelson, committee member and assistant director of the office of residential programs, saidaving a check-in policy at JRP and Pemplin could protect the University from legal liability.
The committee also recommended increasing the number of weekly
security hours at JRP and Templin from 35 to 101 hours, as other residence halls have now.
The report issued a favorable review of a roommate agreement program that began this year in an effort to decrease the number of roommate complaints made to the office of residential programs, Bob Jerry, committee chairman and board member, said.
The roommate agreement program asks the residents to discuss and sign an informal contract that lists areas of potential conflicts. Jerry said the roommate agreement program had cut down the number of room and hall changes requested by residents.
"Generally, it's fair to say that I
the roommate agreement has been
Group smooths college transition
Staff Reporter
By PATRICIA SKALLA
The move from a community college to a large university isn't an easy one, and a group of KU officials is trying to smooth the transition.
The three officials this semester began making weekly trips to Kansas community colleges in an effort to improve relationships between the colleges and the University of Kansas.
"We are concerned that we have good, solid educational connections between KU and the community colleges," Haskell Springer, director of freshman-sophomore English and one of the officials, said yesterday.
The other officials are Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Philip Montgomery, associate professor of math.
established to research the relationship.
SPRINGER SAID THE meetings were a result of a report called "The Community Colleges and the University." The last December by a KU committee
Montgomery said the University's programs had a lot of influence on community college students who wanted to transfer to KU. When they did, Montgomerys college education influences their performance at the University.
"This is an attempt to make the University more accessible to the students by making the departments more accessible." he said.
The trio is making its trips each Thursday and has visited four of 17 community colleges. The four are West Virginia State University, Independence Kan. and Chanute.
THE KU OFFICIALS met with officials from the four colleges to discuss such concerns as curriculum changes and ways to ease the transition of students to college colleges to KU, said Carol Prentice, administrative assistant to Tacha.
Springer said he and Montgomery explained proposed English and math competency exams to the directors of the colleges' English and
math departments. The two discussed with the directors how a recent proposal for the establishment of a KU would affect transfer students.
Prentice said, "In the last couple of years, there has been an increase in relations between KU and the community colleges."
THE FACULTY AT KU and at the colleges meet at least once a year in Wichita, she said. And one day each spring, the community college faculty and administrators are invited to KU to visit the professors and the students who transferred from their colleges to KU.
Montgomery said, "There needs to be some sort of continuing contact with community colleges to establish a good relationship with them."
Springer said other ways to continue contact between the community colleges and KU were being investigated. He and the other two KU officials are asking the community colleges for further suggestions.
The meetings have been successful so far, Springer said.
Rogers approved the settlement Tuesday between Marsha Thomson, Topeka, a former state employee who worked in the records department of the attorney general's office.
Stephan spokesman Neil Woerman declined yesterday to disclose the amount of the settlement
TOPEKA — A $750,000 sex discrimination suit against Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan has been settled out of court in an agreement approved by U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers.
Thomson had filed the suit in December 1982 alleging that Stephan made "sexist advances" toward her, and continued "continual kisses, pinches and pats."
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
Stephan suit reaches end out of court
Senate committee formed to review stand on ASK
By United Press International
A Student Senate committee last night formed a subcommittee to review whether the Associated Students of Kansas fulfills its obligations as a lobby group and as an association in Kansas Legislature that KU students do not agree with the ASK position on the drinking age bill.
Several committee members said they wanted to find out whether ASK adequately represented their workforce who finance its lobbying efforts. recently was allocated $24,436 of Senate funds for fiscal year 1986.
Some members of the Senate Student Rights Committee volunteered to form a temporary committee and represent a representation of student opinion.
When she was dismissed, Thomson said in her suit Stephan told her the office would operate more smoothly without her. She was employed in the records department of the attorney general's office.
Sandra Binyon, ASK campus director, said last month that the ASK position on the drinking age and the reason since the last Legislative session.
Last year, ASK opposed increasing the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 for 3.2 percent beer. But after the federal government passed legislation to deny highway funds to any state not complying
with the higher drinking age by 1986. ASK dropped its efforts and lobbed to allow 18-year-olds to continue to handle and serve drinks and to raise the drinking age gradually over a couple of years.
The resolution passed by the Rights Committee last night states that ASK should continue to protect companies in regardless of federal pressures.
The Rights Committee also voted to send letters to the legislature. Gov. Carlin and ASK saying that ASK's current position on the drinking age bill did not represent the feelings of the majority of students at the University of Kansas.
THE NON-BINDING resolution passed by the committee, which is a statement of opinion, is on the agenda for the full Senate meeting and would have to approve of the measure before the letters would be sent.
In other action, the committee passed a bill to restrict the student body president's veto power.
If the bill is passed by the full Senate next week, the president could veto any legislation except non-binding resolutions and petitions, which are statements of opinion.
The suit named Stephan, Deputy Attorney General Robert Alderson, and Stephan's assistant Betty Johnson.
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